the next storm

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we had a difficult winter, we had a rough few months, and when the storms came in off the coast, it felt like they broke everything on us at once, it's easy enough to talk about blitz spirit, when you're not holding the roof up and knee deep in it, and the pictures and the papers got ruined by the rain, and we wondered if they'd ever get dry again, but i don't want to spend the whole of my life indoors, laying low and waiting on the next storm, i don't want to spend the whole of my life inside, i wanna step out, and face the sunshine, we lost faith in the omens, we lost faith in the gods, we just ended up clutching at the empty rituals, like gamblers clutching long odds, i don't care what the weatherman is saying, because the last time that i saw him he was on his knees, he was praying, and the preachers and the scientists got soaked just the same, and we wondered if they'd ever get dry again, but i don't want to spend the whole of my life indoors, laying low, waiting on the next storm, i don't want to spend the whole of my life inside, i wanna step out, and face the sunshine, so open the shutters, raise up the mast, rejoice, rebuild, the storm has passed, cast off the crutches, cut off the cast, rejoice, rebuild, the storm has passed, but i don't want to spend the whole of my life indoors, laying low and waiting on the next storm, i don't want to spend the whole of my life inside, i wanna step out, and face the sunshine, i'm not gonna live the whole of my life indoors, i'm gonna step out, and face the next storm